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Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters is the free-to-play version of Team Ninja’s brawler on PS3. The studio is now giving players a free download of brawler Jann Lee as the game passes the one million player milestone.

Team Ninja has released a new trailer and screenshots for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, showing new bosses, harvested weapons, and an all-new environment featuring an enormous armored fortress. Ensconced within are a pack of massive, two-headed zombie toddlers known as the Terrible Two. Gruesome. Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be available for PlayStation 3 and […]

A new Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z developer video has been released by Comcept, Spark Unlimited and Team Ninja. The second video in the series explores the creation process of cyber ninja Yaiba Kamikaze from conception to execution. The video is filled with observations from executive producer Yosuke Hayashi, producer Keiji Inafune, art director Shinsuke Komaki, […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has a new video available, featuring four and a half minutes of gameplay highlights and character skins, one of which doesn’t appear very practical when fighting zombies. See for yourself below, and pay close attention to the end of it, as there’s a tease hinting at a Yaiba and Dead or […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has a developer diary available and you can watch it below. The first in a new series of videos discussing the game’s development, this particular entry titled “Bloody Beginnings,” features developers from Team Ninja, Comcept, and Spark Unlimited touching upon the multiple-team collaboration. Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z releases on PC, PlayStation […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has a bonus mode called ‘Ninja Gaiden Z.’ It pays tribute to the NES original and sees you hacking up zombies in a 2D scrolling beat-em-up fashion. Tecmo Koei’s released a video of it online. Watch it here.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z includes a sewage plant level where out hero is confronted by zombies with bile, electricity and fire attacks. Ever adaptable, he turns the undead’s abilities against them with gory results, as the screens below show.

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate received an arcade-exclusive character in the form of the rather fishy-sounding Marie Rose. Team Ninja has confirmed that it’s now looking at an update to bring her to console versions.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has a new, 30-second video available showing the bloody sword game with zombies from Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi and Comcept’s Keiji Inafune. The game takes place in a world where ninja meets undead warriors and features cybernetic weapons. The game is slated for release in early 2014 on PC, PS3 and […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be released in early 2014, and Tecmo Koei has announced it will be heading to PC via Steam. Yaiba is in development with Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi and Comcept’s Keiji Inafune, and features a world where ninja meets undead warriors and features cybernetic weapons. Along with PC, the game is […]

Although you might have expected freshly-released Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate to be the final form of the fighter, it’s not. Siliconera reports the version headed to Japanese arcades during northern winter will have an additional cast member. No details on who the addition is have been released, and there’s no word on if they’ll […]

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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z includes a sewage plant level where out hero is confronted by zombies with bile, electricity and fire attacks. Ever adaptable, he turns the undead’s abilities against them with gory results, as the screens below show.

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate received an arcade-exclusive character in the form of the rather fishy-sounding Marie Rose. Team Ninja has confirmed that it’s now looking at an update to bring her to console versions.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has a new, 30-second video available showing the bloody sword game with zombies from Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi and Comcept’s Keiji Inafune. The game takes place in a world where ninja meets undead warriors and features cybernetic weapons. The game is slated for release in early 2014 on PC, PS3 and […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be released in early 2014, and Tecmo Koei has announced it will be heading to PC via Steam. Yaiba is in development with Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi and Comcept’s Keiji Inafune, and features a world where ninja meets undead warriors and features cybernetic weapons. Along with PC, the game is […]

Although you might have expected freshly-released Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate to be the final form of the fighter, it’s not. Siliconera reports the version headed to Japanese arcades during northern winter will have an additional cast member. No details on who the addition is have been released, and there’s no word on if they’ll […]

Tecmo Koei released a bunch of videos showing off Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate last week, but the spiffy trailer quickly went AWOL. It’s back now, and quite a bit longer. Enjoy the drama, new game modes, and ridiculous costumes below.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z creator Keiji Inafune has his own ideas of what makes zombies fun, dramatic or terrifying, and he’s explained how the game’s brand of undead shufflers will work in the slasher. He’s also name-dropped The Walking Dead as a way of doing dramatic zombies right.

The latest version of Dead or Alive 5, the recently-announced Ultimate, is getting an arcade release in Japan. Shoryuken reports, via Japanese sources, that the arcade release is set for northern winter and will use Sega’s ALL.Net P-ras MULTI Ver.2 system. It’s the first time the Dead or Alive series has released in Japanese arcades […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z doesn’t take itself seriously, so neither should you says Catherine Cai. Speaking with Team Ninja’s studio head Hayashi Yosuke, it’s clear that this will be the ‘Blood Dragon’ of slashers.

Quite a few videos have been released for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, and each are less than two minutes long but at least you get a look at gameplay. If you are feeling brave, IGN has 13 minute video of it here. Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z is due on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in […]

A developer diary for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is below, and features Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi and concept lead, Keiji Inafune, discussing development of the game. The game is in the works between three developmental entities: Comcept, Spark Unlimited, and Team Ninja. In the video, Inafune and Hayashi talk about many things, along with […]

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z creator Keiji Inafune, and long-time developer of the series, Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi have discussed their memories of the series since it began on NES, right through to current day. There’s also a little bit of friendly rivalry at play too. Pistols at 20 paces gentlemen.

It’s the men’s turn to get their kit off, as Dead or Alive 5 has received another new costume pack from Team Ninja. The ‘Fighter Pack’ costs 400 MSP / £3.99 and features new garbs for Hayabusa, Brad Wong, Jann Lee, Bayman, Gen Fu, Hayate, Rig, Eliot, Bass, Zack and Akira. We’ve got three shots […]

Dead or Alive 5 will receive a new patch during February, to correct an issue with critical stagger escapes introduced in the last title update. The patch, which will release for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version has not been dated, but will release alongside two Xbox 360 DLC packs, Hotties Swimwear and […]

Dead or Alive 5 Plus, the Vita version of Team Ninja’s latest fighter, will support Cross Play, Cross Save and Cross Buy DLC, Siliconera reports. That means portable players will be able to challenge PlayStation 3 rivals and vice versa; you can take your story progress with you when you switch systems; and any costumes […]